Ani Bundel has been blogging professionally since 2010. This is her second major independent site launch. A DC native and Keyboard Khaleesi, she spends all her non-writing time photographing her cats. Regular bylines also found on MSNOW.
Netflix
Most people track the changes in how we fly as having begun in 2001. However, the real moment air travel forever went from some glamorous lifestyle to a security nightmare was 1988, when the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland. Up until that incident, taking
Apple TV
Dick Turpin will ride once more on Apple TV+, but only once more. According to reports from Broadcast UK (which has been the lead outlet breaking The Completely Made Up Adventures of Dick Turpin news, including the Season 2 renewal and the show's sudden cancellation), Apple TV+ has
PBS
Ever since it debuted in July 2021, the U.K. adaptation of Professor T has bounced around the PBS schedule like a rubber ball. Season 2 of the series arrived in September 2023, and Season 3 in June 2024. Obviously, that could only mean that Season 4 would debut sometime
Ovation
It wasn't a surprise when the production studio behind (what I will continue to hate calling) the "Para-verse" announced that it was doing a second spinoff of the hit series Death in Paradise. The first spinoff, Beyond Paradise (or Solving Crimes Within A Commutable Distance of
PBS
Astrid fans who have persevered in quietly waiting for the English-language remake, Patience, to arrive on PBS will finally be rewarded for their fortitude. As expected, the series will be part of the PBS "Summer of Mysteries" lineup; however, those who thought the show might be a 10
Now Stream This
It's been a year since we first started seeing the streaming wars begin to take shape after a decade of upheaval, as the wheat started to separate from the chaff. Streaming's British offerings have been a microcosm of the larger overhaul of the business, and a
PBS
The last decade has not been easy for TV broadcast networks; however, some longstanding TV traditions have been affected more significantly than others. The Simpsons, for instance, had the fortunate break of being acquired by Disney in the merger with Fox, which gave it a whole new platform and fan
PBS
If you're currently streaming I, Jack Wright over on BritBox, you may have found yourself missing Unforgotten more than usual this week. Perhaps the good folks at PBS HQ and Masterpiece were, too, because the entire lineup for Summer 2025 had arrived, and the return of Unforgotten for
FX
FX has officially confirmed that Shōgun is returning for Season 2, along with the start date of production. The 2024 series, which took more than a decade to bring to fruition, was FX's crown jewel when it finally arrived — a series that fully embodied the network's
BritBox
Filming for Death in Paradise Season 15 is officially underway, with the BBC posting the first image from the set in Guadaloupe. The series, which underwent a revival of sorts in Season 14 with its fifth lead in just over a decade, has never been more popular, with viewership remaining
Disney/Hulu
No offense to Hulu, but if a series is debuting on the Disney-owned platform and it's not an FX series (or a Freeform one), it feels like no one bothers to promote it. We've been complaining about this on and off for the last few years,
Channel 4
The 1979 debut novel of British author Barbara Taylor Bradford, A Woman of Substance, was a massive hit. The first in what became the “Emma Harte Cycle,” a seven-novel saga tracing the fictional heroine’s rise from country housemaid to Wall Street mogul, sold 30 million copies and made Taylor